When Gari Marshall's "happy days" presented itself on January 15, 1974, television viewers across the country were not exactly affected by Deja Wu. They were mostly confused about why this sitcom set in the late 1950s, which followed the accidents of the male high school package, while socializing on a local burger, clumsyly following girls and facing an uncertain future like Eisenhower's era. After all, the George Lucas Bummer-Nostalgia blockbuster (The cast includes pre- "Starwalks War" Harrison Ford) still playing in China When he made his debut "Happy Days". The fact that both of them refer to high school students who deal with hizles because they are faced with an uncertain future was deliberate.

The presence of Ron Howard, who was co-glumes as unresolved Steve Bolander in "American Graffiti" before becoming well-adapted Richie Cunningham in "Happy Days", only further married the two productions. In an interview with The archive of American televisionHoward explicitly cited "American graffiti" as an influence on "happy days", although he also named Robert Muligan's spiritual "Summer of '42" as integral in the trifle of the sithom. What is interesting is that Steve on Howard is far from the least interesting character in "American Graffiti", and Howard himself would continue to be overshadowed in "happy days". Remember, the veteran of show business - which has continued to direct numerous classics like Splash, The Paper and Apollo 13 - is not bitter for none of this.

Instead, "American graffiti" (a generational sensation that currently has a result of 95% of critics of Rotten tomatoes) introduced film films with a brilliant actor who will become an unconventional leading man over the next few decades. Indeed, Richard Drayfus probably wouldn't sniff today, but he was a brand-bound in his prime minister.

Parallels aside, the differences between "American graffiti" and "Happy Day" are quite significant. Marshall's show takes place in the blue-jaced city of Milwaukee's Mid West, while Lucas's film focuses on the cruise culture of his hometown of Modesto, California. "Happy Days" has also become a show for the Cunningham family (in which Arthur "Fonzi" by Henry Winkler is absorbed), while the authorities' figures are largely absent in "American graffiti". Similarly, no one in Lucas's film can start Ukebobox by giving him a solid slap, and the spectrum of the Vietnam war Hunt and hunt for the characters of "American Graffiti".

Meanwhile, Drayfus, Kurt Henderson, is the heart of "American graffiti". He is an aspiring writer, a dreamer and a hopeless romantic (the one who spends most of the film desperately trying to associate with a mysterious blonde woman). He should go to college the next day, leaving behind his three friends, everyone has a weak or, at best, conventional prospects. In the epilogue we find out what is from this quartet, and that is crushing. This is a "happy day" place could never go. Fonzi jumped sharks. He did not send himself to die in Vietnam or be killed by a drunk driver. "Happy Days" was a lie, but it was a kind of fabrication.